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2. Caseless ammunition - Wikipedia

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   Caseless ammunition is an attempt to reduce the weight and cost of ammunition by dispensing with the case, which is typically precision made of brass or steel, as well as to simplify the operation of repeating guns by eliminating the need to extract and eject the empty case after firing. [2]

3. LSAT caseless ammunition - Wikipedia

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   Caseless ammunition also produces no ejected shells, which improves the weapon's resistance against environmental contamination, and it eliminates the need to collect and recycle empty brass, as is needed with current firearms. In August 2013, AAI Corporation was awarded a $2.05 million contract to continue developing parts of the LSAT program ...

4. Blank (cartridge) - Wikipedia

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   A 7.62×51mm NATO crimped blank cartridge. The appearance of a blank cartridge can give a false sense of safety. Although blank cartridges do not contain a bullet, precautions are still required because fatalities and severe injuries have resulted on occasions when blank cartridges have been fired at very close ranges.

5. Belt (firearms) - Wikipedia

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   An M60 machine gun belt loaded with 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges, aboard a U.S. Navy patrol craft. An ammunition belt is a firearm device used to package and feed cartridges, typically for rapid-firing automatic weapons such as machine guns.

6. Bandolier - Wikipedia

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   A bandolier or a bandoleer is a pocketed belt for holding either individual cartridges, belts of ammunition or grenades. It is usually slung sash-style over the shoulder and chest, with the ammunition pockets across the midriff and chest. [1] Though functionally similar, they are distinct from chest rigs, which are designed to hold magazines ...

7. Headspace (firearms) - Wikipedia

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   Headspace positioning of rimless, rimmed, belted and straight cartridges Several different rimmed, .22 rimfire cartridges, which have a uniform forward diameter, and which have headspace on the rim, allowing any length of cartridge shorter than the maximum size to be used in the same firearm Firearms chambered for tapered rimmed cartridges like this .303 British cannot safely fire shorter ...